User's Manual

Moving Physical and Virtual Disks from One System to

Moving Physical and Virtual Disks

from One System to Another

This section describes how to move physical and virtual disks from one

system to another.

Required Conditions

This section applies to PERC 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, 4/Di, PERC 5/E and PERC 5/i, and

SAS 5/iR Controllers

After some planning and preparation, it is possible to migrate physical and

virtual disks from one controller, enclosure or server to another. You can

perform physical and virtual disk migration on PERC 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC,

4/Di, PERC 5/E and PERC 5/i, and SAS 5/iR controllers as long as the

following conditions are met.

General Conditions for SCSI and SAS Controllers

• Virtual disks can only be migrated to a controller that is using the same

technology. For example, virtual disks on a SCSI controller must be

migrated to a SCSI controller and virtual disks on a SAS controller must be

migrated to a SAS controller. For more information, see RAID Controller

Technology: SCSI, SATA, ATA, and SAS.

• When moving an enclosure, both SCSI and SAS controllers require that

you power down the enclosure and the server before moving the enclosure.

SCSI Controller Conditions

• PERC 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, 4/Di, 4e/Si, and 4e/Di virtual disks cannot be

migrated to a PERC 2/SC or PERC 2/DC controller. PERC 2/SC and

PERC 2/DC virtual disks can be migrated to a PERC 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC,

4/Di, 4e/Si, or 4e/Di controller.

NOTE: The current version of Storage Management does not support the PERC 2,

2/Si, 2/SC, or 2/DC controllers.